Re: Georgian
| From: | Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, June 5, 2006, 1:42 |
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On 6/4/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> However, I don't find this too strange: that morpheme probably makes a
> transitive verb intransitive, which isn't strange, if the lexicon
> entry for that verb is transitive (a reasonable default for 'to see').
Nope. The verb stays transitive, but has no object explicitly encoded
in the verb form. In general in Georgian the number and person of
both the subject and object are encoded by a verbal affix. The
default object is 3rd person (of indeterminate number). Other affixes
change that default, and one option is to remove the object
specification altogether. My comparison to the virama was
well-considered.
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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>
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